Senior Environmental Advisor

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior Environmental Advisor within the Environmental Team. 

What you’ll be doing

• Responsible for managing the flow of all the relevant environmental information within sub-lots

• Management of the sublots environmental deliverables review tracker and assets schedule

• Work closely with the DJV in developing a design that avoids or reduces significant environmental impacts based on Environmental Minimum Requirements (EMR) principles

• Review of relevant incoming documentation and reports, including EMRs to ensure compliance

• Ensuring consistency across environmental deliverables, utilising relevant technical and contract guidance and the support of the discipline leads

• Provide advice and support for the environmental topic leads and engineering team regarding environmental design across the sub-lots (ensuring consistency with Basis of Design, Contract Requirements Technical, TS and CoCP)

• Attend meetings (external and internal) – weekly and monthly on key environmental topics

• Contribution of ideas for continuous improvement (making tasks easier, ensuring consistent approach, identification of environmental constraints/opportunities etc)

Experience Required

• Degree in an environmental or scientific discipline or relevant career experience
• Experience as an Environmental Advisor working in relation to construction site activities,
• Have deputised for when senior members are out of the business 
• Thorough understanding of EMS including development of documents, procedures and processes
• Trained and experienced internal ISO 14001 auditor (preferred Lead Auditor) Practioner IEMA (or equivalent level of membership with a relevant professional body)
• Experience of Stakeholder management (Environment Agency/Local Authority) 

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Benefits of working with us

• Car/ car allowance [add/remove if required]

• Flexible working available for some roles

• Free parking

• Travel allowance for eligible candidates

• Family friendly leave policies

• Excellent pension contributions

• Healthcare

• Health risk assessments

• Access to employee assistance programmes

• Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

• 9.3km of viaducts

• 62 overbridges

• 35 cuttings

• 56 culverts

• 62 embankments

• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels

• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

Flexible working

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.